"Walking Forest Therapy Roads ® with a doctor"

"Walking Forest Therapy Roads ® with a doctor" is a special event subsidized by Green and Water fund which is under the auspices of the National Land Afforestation Promotion Organization, a public interest Incorporated Association popularly known by its emblem of Green feathers. The event will allow subjects to easily experience the medically proven healing effects of forests through forest-based activities such as bathing, walking, sitting and simply laying down.
The event will be held at several Forest Therapy Roads ® locations selected from amongst the total of 48 existing Roads nationwide after tests were conducted on the efficacy of the participating forests and these tests included measuring the stress hormone levels of subjects.
As the event will be actively monitored by doctors, we welcome the participation of people who lead ordinary yet stressful lives and especially those with lifestyle-related illnesses such as digestive diseases or cancers.
We invite you to experience the effects of spending time in a beneficial forest environment and witness the resultant reductions in stress levels and increases in NK-cell and adiponectin protein measurements, all of which are proven to help inhibit lifestyle-related diseases such as diabetes. Why don't you come and experience for yourself the beneficial effects of these forest walks by measuring your stress levels both before and after the planned activities and thereby come to realize the power and importance of forests ?

Schedule: Saturday, 22nd September 2012

Misugi, the Hometown of Health
Misugi Town, Tsu City, Mie Prefecture

Schedule: Sunday, 30th September, 2012

Nature-walk of Nakanosawa river headwaters area
Uenomura, Gunma Prefecture